Method of making caskets ob bttrial-vaults



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METHOD 0F MAKING CASKBTS 0R BURIAL VAULTS.

APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 17, 1908` 925,929. Patented June 22, 1909,V

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METHOD 0F MAKING CASKETS OR BURIAL-VAULTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1909.

Application led Hatch 17, 1908. Serial No. 421,746.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANTHONY E. MAGoRIs, M. D., a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and `State of New York, have invented certain vaults, which can be made so that the spread of disease by the burial in the ground in the method now used can be prevented.

The object is to rovide a means whereby a disposition of the uman dead can be made, and the decaying bodies will not be a menace to the health of the living by polluting the water of streams, as it has been shown b cemeteries and the like will carry contagion for long distances.

With my invention, the casket or burial vault may be placed in the ground, and lowered to different depths, if desired to place one casket upon another, and is so built that it will be air-ti ht, Waterroof, and verminproof, and wil protect tfle body from any exposure of temperature or dampness, and

'.1 mil the materials used in making the structure will in alarge measure protect against decay. The invention relates to certain novel "features of construction and combinations of Vparte which will be hereinafter described and Y, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof.

The materials used for making these burial caskets are both vegetable and mineral. The ve etable substances used because of the rous'nature and less wei ht, are procured from waste materials suc as Waste papers,'rags, hemp, jute, fiax, straw, cotton waste, wood pulp, and an form of substance of a fibrous nature. he wood pulp will preferably be composed of `sawwaste, saw dust, factory waste, etc., and stumps, especially the coniferous species which are saturated with resins.4 The mineral .substances will be cements made of Water-proof materials.

The process .of forming1 will be substantially as follows -:-I mix t e fibrous material into a homogeneous pulp of a desired fineness, after which it will be dried and rubbed to a y powder'form and then mixed with a combination of resins, asphalt and other substance ofl resinous-form soluble b heat but insoluble inwater. These substances will be in a finely powdered state and thoroughly triturated or mixed with the vegetable fiber oWder in such ratio as is deemed best suited for this purposes This mixturewill be placed and pressd in molds preferably in such sha es as is desired forthe casket form. This mo d preferably has a hollow vessel inner-form which may be heated by water, steam, gas, or other means applied inside of the mold, and an outside mo d made preferably so that it can be extended or increased in capacity for purposes specified later. The pulp prepared practically as stated above is placed in this receptacle between the hollow mner form and the adjustable outer form and pressed while being heated from the inner surface, into a semi-liquid mass, into the form and thickness desired.

Reducing the temperature by application p ofcold Water or otherwise in the inner form, hardens the mass and when firm enough the outer form is extended to any desired distance leavin such s ace between this jacket and the har ened fi rous mass as is desired. Into this space is cured the semi-liquid Portland cement which is pressed firmly into the spaces which may exist in the fibrous form. This pressure is a pliedy through a plank, metal or other solid eing applied over the surface of the cement on what willbe the bottom of the casket. This plank will become an inte ral part of the casket for reasons hereina ter stated. When sufficient time has elapsed to allow the cement to set or harden sufficiently, the casket is removed from the molds and is then ready for the fin- `ishing. In making this form for the casket, the molds will contain in the part which will become the top edge of the casket, an elevated form or ridge for the purpose of receiving the corresponding elevation or ridge in the cover of the casket for purposes stated hereinafter.

The casket cover is made in a manner like the body, in special molds and is either entire, in sections or'fenestrated for a glass window, and has on its under surface a ridge to fit the groove in the casket. The purpose of the plank on the bottom laced outside of the cement and firmly held t ere is to make more rigid the casket and for the urpose of attaching handles for-carrying t 1e casket.

are easily removable so that in burying, the extra expense of handsome handles can be saved.

It is also intended that in the outer-form of the casket mold there may be designs for molding the cement into any desired deco rative form. These may bedetachable as in the forms for panels in glass bottles. The outside may be colored7 polished, coated, or in any Way decorated.

The inslde of this casket Will be finished in a coating of Portland cement, paints, colors, or antiseptic composition to prevent the dcayl or, infection Vfrom the contents of the casket.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by I etters Patent, is

1. A method of making a casket or burial4 vault consisting in mixing a fibrous mate] ial into a homogeneous pulp and then commingling with the pulp a binder of resinous substance andvforrning the mass into the proper sha e and then a lying a coating of cementl to t e surfaces o t e mass.-

2. A method of making a casket or burial vault consisting in mixing plant libers and 3. A method of making a casket or burialA l Vault consistingof mixing plant fibers, Wood pulp and Waste products into a homogeneous pulp, then commingling the pul With a resinousl substance, then forming t e mass into proper shape and then applying a cement coating on oth surfaces.

4. .A method of making a casket or burial vault consisting of plant -ibers and Wood pulp mixed together and then mixing the mass With a resinous substance forming into proper sha e and then applyingA a cement coating to oth surfaces, and then pressing a board against the bottom of the vmass form-- ing a part of the mass.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature inl presence of tWo Witnesses. i

ANTHONY E. lMAGORIS. Witnesses E. M. BssoM, E. J. HENLEY. 

